The Book of Common Prayer Greatness of past and spiritually dead modernity

Look to The Book of Common Prayer (first written 1549)
"Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from Thy Ways like lost sheep, We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, We have offended against Thy Holy Laws, We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, And we have done those things which we ought not to have done, And there is no health in us: But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders."

How utterly far removed and detached from this pure-hearted confession is the modern so-called Christian (and the entire Christian church), who has not even a vestigial reminiscent fear of God remaining in his heart.

From Robert Alan Balaicius' book Does God Repent
http://stm.christogenea.org/

God Does Not Repent

Arthur Wallis, in his God's Chosen Fast, wrote:
“God has inflexible laws in dealing with men. Sin is visited with judgment, but repentance with mercy. God has declared Himself on this point in the plainest of terms: “If at anytime I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.” (Jer. 18:7-9)
“This repentance of God, therefore, does not imply any caprice on His part, but is wholly keeping with His intentions declared beforehand. Because man repents in respect to sin, God repents in respect to judgment. Strictly speaking, then, it is not God that really changes, but man, Man's change of heart makes it morally possible for God to behave differently toward him, yet acting consistently with His holy character and principles. … So far as His declared intentions are concerned, we may say that God repented, for these were conditional; but as far as His character and principles are concerned, 'God is not a man...that He should repent' (Numbers 23:19). (pp.54.55)

Excerpt from Robert Alan Balaicius Does God Repent...
http://sacredtruthministries.com/books/%E2%80%94-does-god-repent-can-god-change-his-mind
On the nature of YHVH in Arthur Wallis' God's Chosen Fast.

The Battle of Life Poetry

Excellent poetry found in Does God Repent... by Robert Alan Balaicius

"The Battle of Life"

(April 26, 1987)

Life is a paradox of happiness and pain;
In the absence of loss there can be no gain.

If it were not for death, life could not begin;
Redemption not necessary if not for sin.

Birth and death are natural cycles of life;
Without darkness no appreciation of light.

All we lack or have is reasoned from above;
Without rejection we could not truly know love.

Except for poverty there would be no wealth;
If we knew no sickness-no comprehension of health.

Wisdom could not triumph, if ignorance did not abound;
If it were not for silence-no appreciation of sound.

If it were not for strife-no cherish of peace;
If not imprisoned-no joy in release.

If not for work-no need for rest;
If not for the curse-no cause to be blessed.

Despite evil's influence the Master has planned;
An eternal existence between Creator and man.

Swallowed in our blindness, we know only "here" and "now;"
Still, though we see not, we demand, "why?" and "how?"

Almighty Yahweh has planned us in His Will;
Things not meant to know, we demand to know still.

Stop fighting His Order and accept it as best;
Trust in His Word and rest in His Rest.

In His Spirit we're strong, in our flesh more than weak;
We must deny our lusts and then only Him seek.

Though illogic abounds from His Mind we should see;
That what seems to be real may not always be.

Victory is surrounded by defeat in a fight;
But in negation the shadow recognizes the light.

We need hope to bring us full through despair;
And though encircled by apathy continue to care.

Opposing evil and darkness by His Power we dare;
And in all of this remember Yehoshua is there.

http://sacredtruthministries.com/books/%E2%80%94-does-god-repent-can-god-change-his-mind